Word: slash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to achieve these twin goals, Republicans in both the House and Senate passed a budget blueprint in May which would cut federal aid to college students and slash federal funds for Civilian scientific research...
...Republicans in Congress must not expect to be in office for very long. Why else would they be mortgaging the country's future by threatening to slash student loans?...Annihilating Work-Study would deny hundreds of students jobs...Improving access to education is at least as worthy a long-term goal as balancing the federal budget...Harvard has its share of political divisions, but all students, faculty and administrators should be able to come together to protect student loans...The importance and effects of activism cannot be underestimated...
...would veto the first major set of G.O.P. spending cuts that both houses of Congress are expected to send to his desk: $16.4 billion worth of recisions from the current budget. Proposing a set of alternative cuts, the President said the G.O.P. package was unacceptable because it would slash education, environmental and crime-prevention programs at the same time that it spares road- and courthouse-construction projects...
...happy about the coming loss of benefits, but they believe it may be overdue. "I don't think the Federal Government can subsidize us forever," says 80-year-old C. Warner Litten, a retired health-care administrator who is probably Fargo's most respected town elder. "I hope the slash isn't too quick, but we can make up for it." Like many Americans, residents of Fargo increasingly doubt that a new courthouse or post office or Army Reserve center is necessary if it means more debt for their offspring. "Regardless of what happens, we're going to deal with...
...Administration could then tag as an effort to balance the budget on the backs of senior citizens -- much as it scored points off earlier Republican efforts to reform the school-lunch program. In January's State of the Union speech, Clinton said he would not allow the Republicans to slash Medicare to pay for tax cuts, a line he took up again in a speech before 2,200 senior citizens attending the decennial White House Conference on Aging -- as it happened, the day after Dole and Gingrich's fiasco. "The Republicans promised they could balance the budget, cut taxes...